AMD showed live DirectX 11 hardware at Computex, although with rigged FPS gage to hide the actual performance. The hardware was performance level, not high-end, and during a recent demonstration of Electronic Arts' Frostbite engine and its DirectX 11 support a few more pieces were revealed. First of all, the new Frostbite engine is up to 20% faster than the old one, and according to AMD it will be far from the only engine to sport DirectX 11 support when things go live.
AMD is very confident about its coming DirectX 11 lineup and even though it used the same performance level hardware, and not high-end, it claimed it was the fastest single-GPU graphics card on the market. They said that the upcoming launch will be even more of a surprise than when they shocked the world with the 800sp RV770 GPU, still vague but very intriguing.
On a side note, the RV8xx code names are still being used, it's just that AMD has shifted focus from the core code names to other, more vague, code names for its products, like Evergreen and so on. And the product names are still undecided. Considering AMD's confidence it may want a fresh start with a new name and perhaps stop climbing the Radeon HD ladder (I.e. maybe go for something different from Radeon HD 5000 series, but most likely fairly similar).
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